This article is for the acute care hospitals, behavioral health hospitals, detoxification facilities, and hospital-based community health centers caring for our members
For patients seeking inpatient psychiatric admissions after boarding in emergency departments, please submit requests for “specialing” services at the same time as the authorization request. This will help ensure your request is processed quickly.
Send your request to us via our individual consideration/clinical exception process by using one of these methods:
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